Learn how to make your projects (and your home) greener, more cost-efficient and more fun!

Plumbing Tip: Signs of a Backed Up Sewer Line

About this blog

By Anu Jameson

Home improvement tips from Networx.com, a website where real people give unpretentious home & garden advice and share their experiences so that you can deal with your own house with more fun and less anxiety. Look here for cheap and time-efficient
...

Home improvement tips from Networx.com, a website where real people give unpretentious home & garden advice and share their experiences so that you can deal with your own house with more fun and less anxiety. Look here for cheap and time-efficient ideas (because we also don't have time to sew our own drapes), real stories about great, imperfect homes and gardens, and funny writers who don't take themselves too seriously.

Yikes! A backed up sewer line is one of the worst nightmares of homeowners. How do you know if your sewer line might be backing up, and it's not just a routine plumbing problem you are facing? A Seattle plumber posted some tips for identifying when your main sewer line is backing up. Signs include: muddy brown water coming up from a drain, a bubbling toilet when not in use, and water pooling on the floors near bathroom fixtures. Sewage coming up in your yard is a definite sign that you might need to auger your sewer line.